They began the week with $14.9 million in cap space. That number will climb to about $20 million with the expected release of tackle Marcus McNeill, a move that should come no later than Thursday.​

The Chargers will also announce today their tender plans for two restricted free agents, tackle Brandyn Dombrowski and tight end Kory Sperry. If either is not tendered, he’ll join the pool of unrestricted free agents.​

The team has already informed its exclusive rights free agents, kick returner Richard Goodman and long snapper Mike Windt, they will return next season.​

Then there’s the case of wide receiver.​

Nothing has changed between the Chargers and Vincent Jackson. He will field interest from outside teams while the Chargers sit prepared with their own offer. The two sides will regroup this week, and Jackson will weigh his options.​

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Insanity - Noun - Trying the same thing again and expecting a different result​

Mike Wallace - If we feel like giving up our 1st round pick...not a chance.
Meachem - Does he really have #1 upside? Maybe.
Colston - High injury risk, and we have enough of those guys.
Manningham - Again not sure he can be anymore than a complimentary reciever.
Wayne - 33yrs old, this is a 1yr bandaide type signing.
Lloyd - Character issues, but in a strange way I think he fits our offense better than every other guy here.

All these players have warts, but past this point its hard to think of any suitable replacement.

And again I don't understand the cap projection, how do we only get 5M for cutting a 10.7M dollar player?

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We gave him a signing bonus, prorated the cap hit, and have only accounted thus far for 2 of the prorated years of cap-hits - which with his release accelerate and compound into a single-year dead money hit.

We gave him a signing bonus, prorated the cap hit, and have only accounted thus far for 2 of the prorated years of cap-hits - which with his release accelerate and compound into a single-year dead money hit.

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Then why was everyone saying we'd get 10.5 mil for releasing him? Confused. I don't understand the cap stuff for **** I guess.

Whether you guys acknowledge it or not AJ and Norv have had their share of success as well. I mean it's all relative and we are talking about the chargers who have never really had it together anyways. There would have been no chance this team could have canned both and had a productive season in my opinion. Look at the majority hires made by other teams a lot of them had to reach for college coaches and coordinators none to me were really impressive.

There were plenty of flashes of greatness this last season along with the utter stupidity and garbage. I think they can put the players in a position to win; it comes down to the players making the plays too

One... spotrac doesn't have full access to full contracts the way the NFLPA site does. I don't have the full membership to that site, and my buddy that did hasn't returned my recent emails. Basically there are a fair amount of LTBE's, UTBE's, escalators, etc. in contracts that sites like spotrac and Rotoworld never have a chance to fully see (it's why the Rams, who spotrac was projecting to be well under the cap were actually over the cap and have had to move quickly to make releases - because of an LTBE clause in Chris Long's contract which triggered and effectively rocketed his 2012 pay upwards of $10.0 million.

Sports writers are not mathematicians or even particularly great accountants/financiers. And their fact checkers, quite frankly, are less concerned about checking numbers unless they're numbers that could potentially get them sued for libel; no one is going to sue the UT or any other paper/news outlet for misrepresenting a football team's available cap room. For the record... as always with the media, you have to look at the exact word choices they used. Acee and the UT constantly stated we'd "save" $10.5 million by cutting McNeill, not that we'd "gain" that amount in available cap. His signing bonus has already been paid, so yes... Dean and the team save McNeill's $10.5 million salary if he's not on the roster to collect game checks. Cap math and actual accounting math are substantially different.

Like high stakes poker, the best teams never sweat walking away, nor do they sweat when they lose a player. There has to be discipline in every decision. There's no place for emotions in free agency. Don't forget real games don't start until September, so there's plenty of time to improve a team.​

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This is a fun time of the year, but do not overreact to a team's big-ticket signings, or lack thereof. Remember, the last free-agent period gave birth to a nickname that haunted a certain franchise all season. Be patient, analytical and most of all objective with all the moves to come.​

Whether you guys acknowledge it or not AJ and Norv have had their share of success as well. I mean it's all relative and we are talking about the chargers who have never really had it together anyways. There would have been no chance this team could have canned both and had a productive season in my opinion. Look at the majority hires made by other teams a lot of them had to reach for college coaches and coordinators none to me were really impressive.

There were plenty of flashes of greatness this last season along with the utter stupidity and garbage. I think they can put the players in a position to win; it comes down to the players making the plays too

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I'd like to know exactly what those were Mondo ..............seriously, Greatness in an 8/8 season ?

AJ hasn't made a decent draft pick in 8 years mate, what do we give him before he deserves the flick ?

Mike Wallace - If we feel like giving up our 1st round pick...not a chance.
Meachem - Does he really have #1 upside? Maybe.
Colston - High injury risk, and we have enough of those guys.
Manningham - Again not sure he can be anymore than a complimentary reciever.
Wayne - 33yrs old, this is a 1yr bandaide type signing.
Lloyd - Character issues, but in a strange way I think he fits our offense better than every other guy here.

All these players have warts, but past this point its hard to think of any suitable replacement.

Neither have I, but we're about to lose a star player who grew with this team. And we've missed the playoffs 2 years in a row it'd be nice not to take another step backwards.

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The only problem is the Lame Duck, situation at GM and HC. Signing high profile players now only to change the guard next year is counter productive. Deano, AJ, ED and Norv have brought this team to where it's at and one magic bullet for the hopes of a winning season doesn't excite me.

The only problem is the Lame Duck, situation at GM and HC. Signing high profile players now only to change the guard next year is counter productive. Deano, AJ, ED and Norv have brought this team to where it's at and one magic bullet for the hopes of a winning season doesn't excite me.

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Hahaha you don't need to tell me, this is where the decision to keep Norv and AJ is already burning us.

I think chargers not expected to chase star players translates to star players don't want to play for Norv Turner.

We need to get rid of the guy and AJ.. but then again who is gonna stick around once those two are gone and this team is in a rebuilding mode.

We honestly were a pass rusher and an impact SS (not pro-bowler or star SS) away from getting to the playoffs. We should be looking at Mario Williams, but somehow were only at $20-21M under the cap once McNeil is gone so thats a definite no. Atleast strive for VJ who I will think will take a 3 year/$27-30M deal considering he's said he'll take a minimum of 3 years and said he will take less money to stay in SD. So if you can get him to $9-9.5-10M i think he'll take it despite offers from other teams at $11M-$14M

Whether you guys acknowledge it or not AJ and Norv have had their share of success as well. I mean it's all relative and we are talking about the chargers who have never really had it together anyways. There would have been no chance this team could have canned both and had a productive season in my opinion. Look at the majority hires made by other teams a lot of them had to reach for college coaches and coordinators none to me were really impressive.

There were plenty of flashes of greatness this last season along with the utter stupidity and garbage. I think they can put the players in a position to win; it comes down to the players making the plays too

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It also comes down to putting quality players on the field and coming up with a solid game plan. Like it or not, players can perform perfect, but if the players are just not very good or the game plan sucks, they will fail. I am not saying it is all AJ and Norv, but they have their fair share in the blame

I think chargers not expected to chase star players translates to star players don't want to play for Norv Turner.

We need to get rid of the guy and AJ.. but then again who is gonna stick around once those two are gone and this team is in a rebuilding mode.

We honestly were a pass rusher and an impact SS (not pro-bowler or star SS) away from getting to the playoffs. We should be looking at Mario Williams, but somehow were only at $20-21M under the cap once McNeil is gone so thats a definite no. Atleast strive for VJ who I will think will take a 3 year/$27-30M deal considering he's said he'll take a minimum of 3 years and said he will take less money to stay in SD. So if you can get him to $9-9.5-10M i think he'll take it despite offers from other teams at $11M-$14M

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Makes me long for the days when AJ would re-sign players on the cheap (reletive) early in their career instead of waiting till they hit free agency and the market can drive up the price. Imagine if VJ would have been signed to a similar deal as Roddy White did in 09, 6 years $50mil. We wouldn't have these issues and VJ would be under contract. We should have done the same thing with Weddle also. Remember when we re-signed Jammer, Hardwick, and Phillips when they still had a couple years left on their deals, and did so for what were very reasonable deals? I miss those days